Divination - “On the Cards and Dice”
The speaker in “On the Cards and Dice” envisages, “Before the sixth day of the next new year,/Strange wonders in this kingdom shall appear:/Four kings shall be assembled in this isle,/Where they shall keep great tumult for a while./Many men then shall have an end of crosses,/And many likewise shall sustain great losses.” The prophecies encompassed in these lines are based on the elucidations presented by the ‘cards and dice’ that the speaker engages during divination. The prophecies are will supervene in the future, and they will be exemplified by enigmatic and tumultuous happenings.
Love - “As You Came from the Holy Land (attributed)”
Walter Raleigh exploits the imagery of saintliness to portray love in “ As You Came from the Holy Land.” Raleigh elucidates, “She is neither white, nor brown,/But as the heavens fair;/There is none hath a form so divine/In the earth, or the air.” The paralleling of the she’s fairness with divinity conjectures that the speaker’s sanctity has been roused by love. The angelic depiction of the woman construes that the speaker is persuaded about his captivation by the woman.
Supremacy - “If Cynthia Be a Queen, a Princess, and Supreme”
Walter Raleigh alludes to the sovereignty of candid writing using Cynthia’s supreme titles of “ a queen and a princess” that could befall instantaneously. Raleigh asserts, “For writing what thou art, or showing what thou were,/Adds to the one disdain, to the other but despair,/Thy mind of neither needs, in both seeing it exceeds.” Although straightforward writing may elicit contempt and depression, it is utmost for it furnishes a vibrant, trustworthy representation of an individual.
